Since she'd stopped living in her old self's house, it had fallen into disrepair again ( Read more... )

Jewish law had strict rules about the practice and observance of Yom Kippur and other major holidays. While this day of atonement would not begin until the following evening, Charlotte Charles who was better known as Chuck was mentally preparing what she would make for the meal prior to the day of fasting. It was like a traditional Sunday meal, ( Read more... )

Dated August , 2009:
After around a year on the island, it's definitely more than a little weird when our Orange County teens find themselves back in Newport. Even stranger, though, is when they discover they've brought new partners back with them. After waking up, Ryan and Lucy try to concoct a plan to explain Lucy's presence, while Marissa and ( Read more... )

As surreal as it was, the whole experience of getting tossed back and forth between the island and Newport in a time that wasn't his own, Ryan wasn't as fazed as he maybe should have been. It seemed natural somehow -- not the part where he'd been in some dream world of Seth's making, but how complicated it all was. His life on the island had, for ( Read more... )

There'd been a time, longer ago now than she could really consider, that by the time she turned twenty, Lucy was meant to be a engaged to a handsome soldier, a scholarship student at a prestigious college, living the kind of life that girls were supposed to dream of. That had changed, of course, before she'd gotten any of it; in retrospect, she ( Read more... )

Until today, I never actually missed California.

I missed the people, some of the places. Mostly the people, though. What is there to miss about a life spent on the run, fighting off bad guys in all shapes and sizes? Not much. I mean, I was committed to the fight, don't get me wrong, but it's kind of nice to be in a place my parents didn't %#&! up ( Read more... )

As a general rule, when the bookshelf offers me comic books, I tend to ignore them. It's not that I'm not curious -- because I am -- so much as that's really not how I want to learn about my future. I'd rather spend hours digging for a recent newspaper than sit down and read about my life as shown through the lens of dialog bubbles and crappy art ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when he wasn't busy, Bridge liked to play with himself ( Read more... )

Dated mid-April:
While at his punching bag, Ryan is found by Kate, who suggests they spar, instead. Despite his initial reluctance, he agrees.

[ HERE | Complete | PG-13]

Later, Lucy comes in to find Ryan all bruised up. She's surprised, at first, but after hearing it was just practice, she tells him she's fine with it. It doesn't take long after ( Read more... )

I'm running.

Admittedly, it's not something I do very much. When it comes to the whole 'flight or fight' response, my first instinct is always fight. It's how I ended up with the Young Avengers, it's how I later ended up with the so-called 'Secret' Avengers, and it's how, finally, I ended up in the middle of a goddamn alien invasion. I'm a fighter ( Read more... )